Brains and Eggs

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

The Guardian (U.S. news)

Person reported killed during ICE operation in Maine, state house speaker says – US politics live - Ryan Fecteau says person was reportedly shot in Biddeford, with authorities on the scene to investigate - Sign up for the Breaking News US ema...
The Hill

Lawler rips Mace over 'grotesque' Graham succession post - Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Sunday ripped into Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) over what he called a "grotesque" post about running to succeed Sen. Lindsey Graha...
Axios

Trump reimposes naval blockade on Iran amid escalating clashes in Hormuz - President Trump announced on Monday that the U.S. is reinstating the naval blockade on Iran and will prevent any ships from leaving or entering Iranian p...
Raw Story

Todd Blanche to 'squirm' with who he's about to face at high-stakes hearing: expert - Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche faces Epstein survivors at his Senate confirmation hearing this week, with one expert predicting he'll be left "squi...
Al Jazeera English

Iraqi PM heads to US seeking balance between security and economy - PM Ali al-Zaidi to hold talks with Trump, with energy investment and role of pro-Iran groups likely to dominate agenda.
Ballot Access News

Aaron Day Files Brief in New Hampshire Ballot Access Lawsuit - On July 13, Aaron Day, an independent candidate for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, filed this brief in his ballot access lawsuit. The Secretary of State had...
IVN

My Vote Is My Right—Not a Party Privilege - The US Constitution begins with "We the People." These words do not distinguish between Democrats, Republicans, independents, or voters with no party affil...
SCOTUSblog

The Supreme Court and the opinion-assignment guessing game - As we saw this term, by late May the Supreme Court begins releasing the bulk of its merits decisions, and with it a familiar guessing game starts among c...
Futurism

Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic’s Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care - "If [people] care about the notion that AI has to be handled in a responsible manner... this is a case that should matter to you." The post Lawsuit Claim...
Undernews

Donald Trump - *Feedly *- President Donald Trump has again overstated levels of public support for his administration, claiming that a sizable majority of the country ap...
Deadline Politics

Paramount-WBD Merger Is Competition Killer, State Attorneys General Allege In Proposed Blockbuster Antitrust Action - From Sacramento to Albany and several state capitals in between, regional attorneys general are steeled to stop Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion merger wi...
The Week

Can anything salvage peace between US and Iran? - Ceasefire on verge of collapse but result could be indefinite ‘no war, no peace’
The AltWorld

Podcast: Emotional Intelligence And Feeling Big Feelings - Caitlin and Tim discuss the importance of emotional maturity in the struggle against the empire. Caitlin paints a portrait […] The post Podcast: Emotiona...
Techdirt.

Musk’s Starlink Socks Customers With $1500 ‘High Demand’ Surcharge - For years I’ve noted that while Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite broadband system can be very useful for people with no other options (warzones, RVs, boats, ...
Space City Weather

With widespread showers and thunderstorms likely, we have a Stage 1 flood alert in place through Tuesday - In brief: Houston will see favorable conditions for widespread showers and thunderstorms today and Tuesday, and accordingly we have put a Stage 1 flood ale...
Texas Observer

In Texas Schools, a Crisis of Arrests of Kids as Young as 10 - Editor’s Note: This story was supported by grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Center for Health Journalism at the University of So...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: Government Without Newspapers? - The war on the press is no joke, and for more on that, check out On The Media’s latest installment. It’s also nothing new; Trump has devoted plenty of ener...
Houston Public Media

Challenges of changing legal status (July 13, 2026) - On Monday's show: Last week’s shooting by ICE agents of a Houstonian who had entered the country illegally more than 30 years ago raised, to some, question...
slacktivist

Andy did you hear about this one? - If you believe, we'll put a cross on the moon, cross on the moon.
Texas Environmental News

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Consortium News

Alastair Crooke: Iran War 3.0 - The timeline of this new bout of escalation is likely dictated by U.S. refinery inventories and the extent of the “hurt” being experienced by Trump back ho...
Off The Kuff

The Hinojosa rebate - I like this. State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor, is promising to send each Texas household a $1,500 check drawn from the state’s...
Eschaton

Morning - Like sands through the hourglass...
Slate

Our Daughter Was Filmed By Two Cruel Classmates. The School’s Response Doesn’t Go Far Enough. - This is just a sign of what's to come.
ProPublica

A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade - The post A U.S.-Mexico Impasse Will Test How Far the Trump Administration Will Go to Fight Drug Trade appeared first on ProPublica.
High Country News

Collapsing mountains in Alaska are causing massive tsunamis - [image: A cruise ship motors toward the South Sawyer Glacier at the end of Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord in August 2023, near where a landslide triggered a tsun...
OpEd News

Beyond the Bombs: Iran's Political Crossroads, the Return of American Air Power, and the Emerging Role of Mohammad Baghe - This article examines how the renewed U.S. bombing campaign against Iran is reshaping the country's internal politics. Beyond the military conflict, it exp...
Two Party Opera

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World Socialist Web Site

Guggenheim museum workers, public defenders in New York City vote to authorize strike action - In two separate votes, staff at the Guggenheim Museum and hundreds of public defense attorneys in New York City, all members of the UAW, overwhelmingly aut...
Trivial Knot

The efficient fencing problem - Back in the day, I used to post math puzzles, similar to how I post origami today. Today I’m revisiting a problem that I never fully solved. Problem statem...
jobsanger

The World Is Distancing Themselves From The United States -
memeorandum

Why recruiters can't find workers and new grads can't find jobs (it's not AI) (Jon Marcus/Washington Post) - Jon Marcus / Washington Post: *Why recruiters can't find workers and new grads can't find jobs (it's not AI)* — Experts say a major labor shortage loom...
Informed Comment

Hormuz: High AC Costs as UK Heat Wave kills Thousands - What does the Middle East have to do with the brutal British heat wave that has left thousands dead over the past two months? Everything.
Portside

Sunday Science: StarTalk – Steven Spielberg Believes in Aliens - Sunday Science: StarTalk – Steven Spielberg Believes in Aliens Ira Sun, 07/12/2026 - 23:23
Courthouse News

Bellingham scores twice to lift England past Haaland and Norway 2-1 and into World Cup semifinals - Not everyone was thrilled with England's performance.
Mediaite

Rick Wilson Touts ‘Karmic Comfort’ In Lindsey Graham Dying After He ‘Sold His Soul’ For Iran War - Rick Wilson said there is "karmic comfort" in Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) dying after he "sold his soul" pushing President Donald Trump to launch the Iran...
Antiwar.com

Trump’s New Iran Strikes Are Turning Failure Into a Wider Disaster - The easiest mistake in war is to confuse the ability to strike again with proof that the previous strike worked. Donald Trump is making that mistake in Ira...
Political Wire

Lindsey Graham’s Death Complicates Myriad GOP Goals - “Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death stands to scramble an array of Republican policy efforts, as Congress loses one of its top White House whisperers and coalitio...
Mediagazer

Sources: David Ellison's advisers are urging him to move Paramount's HQ and much of its spending out of California if AG Rob Bonta sues to block the WBD merger (Rohan Goswami/Semafor) - Rohan Goswami / Semafor: *Sources: David Ellison's advisers are urging him to move Paramount's HQ and much of its spending out of California if AG Rob Bo...
Salon.com

79-year-old Mitt Romney thinks no one over 80 should hold office - Romney, Trump, McConnell and Graham reignited questions this week about experience, fitness and succession in D.C.
The Verge

Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are ‘not sexy’ - Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While she didn't sp...
Claytoonz

Death to Smoochy - Read the blog at my Substack. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to clayjonz@gmail.com, Ven...
San Antonio Report

Appeals court rejects effort to defend Texas law offering in-state tuition for undocumented students - A federal judge blocked the law known as the Texas Dream Act in June after it was challenged by the Trump administration and state officials declined to de...
Ian Welsh

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 12, 2026 - Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – July 12, 2026 by Tony Wikrent War on voting Eighteen States Have Complied With the GOP’s Election Theft Infrastructur...
Angry Bear

Declining President . . . - Just a partial of an “Informed Comment‘” commentary by Tom Engelhardt. “A Declining President may take the Planet down with him,” Informed Comment (Tom E...
NPR's Health Shots

What to know about the cyclosporiasis outbreak hitting more than half of U.S. states - A surge of cases of the intestinal illness that causes diarrhea and nausea has been detected in 31 states, according to federal health authorities, but the...
El Paso Matters

KTEP public radio station’s future management under talks between UTEP, El Paso Community Foundation - It is unclear how a possible transfer of management would affect station personnel, programming or the station’s studio location in the university’s Cot...
Greg Palast

Superman vs. Josh Fox - In his new film, *The Welcome Table*, Josh Fox has traded the point-and-shoot of his seminal *Gasland* for lush cinematography on five continents. But it a...
Debunking Christianity

There Is So Much Bad Theology, Rubbish, Goofy Folklore—Just in Genesis - * It's a way to get Bible study off on the wrong foot* For a long time, there’s been a meme floating around Facebook, with this message: “To most Christi...
San Antonio Current

Houston protesters call on feds to release more information, and witnesses, to Tuesday’s ICE killing - [image: Vivek Venkatraman leads marchers during a protest on July 11, 2026 in Houston. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot by an immigration officer Tu...
Novara Media

The Middle Class Will Collapse Unless We Tax the Rich - The idea of a wealth tax has never been more popular in Britain, and while many have campaigned for it, none have done more to boost the demand than one...
Mondoweiss

Palestine and the role of the activist intellectual - [image: The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University. (Photo: Nancy Kricorian)]Philip Weiss speaks with Bruce Robbins about his book “Who’s Allowe...
Brad Blog

Sunday ‘Everything F**ked Up’ Toons - The White House is branding gas stations and setting the price. But when the mayor of New York proposed a handful of city-run grocery stores, Republicans s...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Platner Debacle and the Struggle of Life Under Fascism: Dispatches Mailbag - The vibes…have been bad.
Glasstire

Art Dirt: Can AI Generate Good Art & Writing? - Brandon Zech, Jessica Fuentes, and Nicholas Frank speak about issues around AI-generated art and writing following ArtReview USA‘s unauthorized republica...
WhoWhatWhy

Graham’s Death Poses Another Headache for Thune - [image: Lindsey Graham, Kyiv] While Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who passed away on Saturday night, will be mourned from Kyiv to Tel Aviv, nobody will feel ...
Infidel753

Video of the day -- not one of them is respectable - A clip from the 1973 classic *The Wicker Man* (note: moderately NSFW audio). This film suggests something of what the true pagan culture of our ancestor...
Scheerpost.com

The Israeli Spy Behind PragerU’s Plan to Rewrite American Education To Indoctrinate Children - Alan Macleod MintPress News PragerU is trying to take over American schools. The right-wing, pseudo-educational group is now an official educational partne...
The Root

Lingering Questions in the Nolan Wells Case That Need Answering … Now - From his final moments to the official investigation, here is everything his loved ones are demanding to know. Read more...
Vox

The forgotten success story of America’s teenagers - It’s been feeling very 1995 lately. Oasis, whose last good song came out back when Macs were still see-through, was the second-biggest tour on the planet ...
The Smirking Chimp

Trump WILL Try To Steal the Midterms. Here’s How. -
naked capitalism

Links 7/12/2026 -
Crooked Media

Can Soccer Save the World? - The post Can Soccer Save the World? appeared first on Crooked Media.
ArcaMax

Diplomacy Anyone? - On Wednesday, Mr. Trump had a new word to describe our adversary's leaders: "scum." "They are sick people. They're led by sick people, and they're vicious,...
Crooked Timber

Sunday photoblogging: Mèze, boat - [image: Mèze: boat]
Counterpunch

The Many Faces of Genocide - Palestinians transport the injured to the Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip on October 9, 2023. Israel relentlessly pounded the Gaz...
Popular Resistance

How The Global Food Economy Is Killing Children - On 4 June 2026, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released a devastating assessment of the state of the world’s food systems. According to the new esti...
The Greanville Post

The Important Questions on Iran and Ukraine - OBB—The Sea of Azov is a vital transport corridor. By attacking tankers carrying fuel from Russian ports to Crimea, Ukraine severely complicates the abilit...
Election Law Blog

“Southern Black leaders warn their power is on the line — and Democrats are looking elsewhere” - Politico: Black leaders across the South have expressed a visceral shock in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act. But a...
Alternet

Ex-RNC head says Trump's new scare tactic undone by 'history and common sense' - President Donald Trump appears to be trying to revive the Cold War-era "Red Scare" with his newest line of attack against Democrats, but as one former RN...
First Draft

Caturday: Sun-Filtered Cat - Meow from Rey.
Mother Jones

A World Cup Star Can Be “Babygirl.” But For Now, He’s Mostly AI. - As someone who watches too much soccer and knows Erling Haaland as perhaps the world’s most formidable striker playing today, seeing friends and acquaintan...
The Conversation

How redefining one word strips the Endangered Species Act’s ability to protect vital habitat - The majority of endangered species listings over the years have involved habitat loss, from Chinook salmon to island foxes and many birds.
CultureMap Houston

Expert guide to Houston's best thrift stores and more popular stories - *Editor's note: **It's time to catch up on Houston's top news of the week, from the city's best thrifting to a beloved book store's return. Read on for our...
Bracing Views

Why Does War Always Win in America? - Answering a Question from a Reader BILL ASTORE JUL 10, 2026 Hello Readers: I thought I’d highlight an excellent question from a reader and my attempt to an...
Daily Howler

SATURDAY: At the Atlantic, they say no names! - *SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2026* *The refusal to serve is general:* "Back out of all this now too much for us?" As we've noted in the past, that's the openin...
Independent Political Report

Green National Committee to Elect Three Steering Committee Co-Chairs During 2026 National Meeting - The Green National Committee will elect three Steering Committee co-chairs later this month, with delegate voting set to end one day before the close of ...
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

Dying in Detention—and in the Streets: ICE’s Expanding Crisis of Impunity, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. July 11, 2026 - *Dying in Detention—and in the Streets: ICE’s Expanding Crisis of Impunity* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *July 11, 2026* *A disturbing new report by...
Grist

How to build homes that can survive extreme heat - As heat waves strain the power grid, passive cooling can help homes stay safer when the air goes out.
Socialist Alternative

Why Gen Z Is Logging Off - Gen Z is fed up with social media and the billionaires who control it. As a result, many of us are making conscious efforts to “unplug” and step away from ...
Bonddad

Weekly Indicators for July 6 - 10 at Seeking Alpha - * - by New Deal democrat* My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The high frequency data continues to confirm my Big Picture outlook tha...
The Progressive Wing

7/11-12 Weekend News Roundup and Open Thread - It’s a beautiful summer weekend in the Catskills
Wolf Street

US Government Sold $743 Billion of Treasury Securities this Week, 30-Year Yield at 5.06% on Inflation, Lax Fed, Supply Fears - Lots of new supply: Treasury debt of notes and bonds outstanding ballooned by $70 billion this week.
Alas, a Blog

Two Toms Talking Theology - This comic was drawn by R.E. Ryan, who did a great job rendering my silly version of Colonial America. In 2023, Senator Josh Hawley posted this quote, attr...
Progressive.org

Locals Resist Data Centers; Democrats Are Too Timid - Words from populist author, public speaker, and radio commentator Jim Hightower.
Workers World

Veterans, military members march against war and fascism - [image: Veterans, military members march against war and fascism] Veterans Against Fascism, Philadelphia, July 4, 2026. Philadelphia Condon was a leading a...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: CLEARING THE DECK IN MAINE EDITION. - *No, really, is that how you pronounce "kilometre"?* We’re rid of Graham Platner at last. His removal comports with the widely-known difference in approa...
Lowering the Bar

Official State Crap Update: California’s Official Shrub - In which the proliferation of official things is also discussed.
Common Dreams

Unmasking Hate: Whose Country, Our Country - What better way to mark the 250th anniversary of a nation founded on lofty ideals now plunged into ugly discrepancies than to double down on hate-and-fea...
Texas Standard

Hollywood is firming up partnerships across Texas - A top Motion Picture Association executive explains why MPA just added two Austin festivals to its list of industry partners.
Liberation News

SCOTUS greenlights Trump Administration’s assault on Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians - There are 1.3 million immigrants that will be affected. Sending shockwaves into the communities where they work and live. There is no reason that billions ...
The Texas Signal

A Texas Literary Horror Collection Rooted In Reality - Many of the stories in the collection from Texas women are designed to be pure nightmare fuel running on the gasoline of lost bodily autonomy
The Militant

Protests: ‘End US blockade, war threats against Cuba!’ - MINNEAPOLIS — As part of nationwide actions called by the National Network On Cuba to protest U.S. aggression against Cuba, the Minnesota Cuba Committee, S...
See You In 2020

The power structure that created Epstein, its internal fracturing, & hope for defeating the pedocracy - There is a growing split among the ruling pedocrats, one that’s come about due to rising anti-imperialist resistance. And the more this movement advance...
Capital & Main

California Lawmakers Seek ‘Forever Chemicals’ Protections Despite EPA Rollbacks - State and federal legislation could help clean cancer-causing contaminants from hundreds of California water systems. One bill was diluted under industry...
Dorf on Law

Flawed Country, Inconsiderate Guests: What Being "Pro-Working People" Truly Means - Not having been brought up on soccer/football, I have only in the last twenty years or so learned anything at all about the World Cup. This year is the ...
Democracy Now!

FOIA Under Attack: Landmark Transparency Law Turns 60; Fed Gov't Blocking More Documents Than Ever - This month marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom of Information Act, the landmark government transparency law that has helped reveal and publicize crit...
Rallblog

Former Olympic Athlete in Court for Reflecting Pool Vandalism | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Conflict reporter/writer/cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstr...
Earth 911

Barcodes Aim to Unlock EPR Packaging Reporting - The idea behind extended producer responsibility for packaging is simple: companies that design and sell... The post Barcodes Aim to Unlock EPR Packaging...
Texas Monthly

Does Portland Still Have the Best Texas-Style Barbecue Outside of Texas? - I made this claim back in 2019, so I went back to Oregon to check in on how the scene is doing today.
Progressives Chat

July 2026: Not a Good Start - July 2026 was not a good start. Not for me. I am not alone. My area Detroit, Michigan closed out June and began July 2026 with near-100 degrees in tem...
The NM Political Report

Democrats’ four-day vote to pick Lt. Governor nominee opens July 25 - [image: Democrats rally around Deb Haaland during the party's Pre-Primary Convention Mar. 2026 (DPNM)] By Kevin Hendricks, The Paper. — New Mexico Democra...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Report July 10, 2026 - Black Agenda Report July 10, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 07/10/2026 - 05:03 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
The Daily Poster

Trump quiere los expedientes de los abogados sobre los niños migrantes. - A medida que los tribunales de inmigración aceleran los procedimientos de deportación, la administración Trump retiene fondos y, al mismo tiempo, presiona ...
Church and State

Remove Barriers to Family Planning - Most of us in wealthy countries know where we can go to find good family planning care.
Speak Freely (ACLU)

Flight Restrictions Threaten to Smother Drone Journalism - Democratized aerial journalism needs to be preserved as the authorities seek security against drone attacks
Project Censored

Why Can’t We Hold Israel Accountable for Its Genocide in Gaza? It’s the Media… - In a Double Down News (DDN) video report, British filmmaker Richard Sanders begins a summary of a “horrific new [United Nations] report” with a listing o...
Dissent Magazine

The Court vs. Democracy - An interview with Julie C. Suk, author of the forthcoming book *The Shadow Court*, on the Supreme Court’s recent decisions and the kind of reforms that w...
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

Decade-Plus Winning Streaks Could be at Risk in the 2026 Midterms - The 2026 elections could test several long-running partisan streaks in Senate and gubernatorial races. The post Decade-Plus Winning Streaks Could be at R...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

'Video - Gay Trump supporter realizes he doesn't know what he's talking about' & other Wed/Thur news briefs - View this post on Instagram A post shared by @waltermasterson *WATCH: Gay Tr*mp supporter realizes he doesn’t know WTF he’s talking about in real time*...
MintPress News

The Israeli Spy Behind PragerU’s Plan to Rewrite American Education To Indoctrinate Children - PragerU is now an official education partner in at least ten states, pushing right-wing American exceptionalism and pro-Israel political content into Ame...
Democracy Chronicles

An Inspiring Africa-Middle East Story: Somaliland - Despite limited recognition, Somaliland is forging bold alliances and leveraging its strategic position in the Horn of Africa defy isolation.
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Screwed Blue And Tattooed - 14.3 x 12 inch high-res color .jpg image, 1.7mb As I post this, we’re still waiting to hear if the Nazi tattoo-wearing, woman-harassing, domestic violence-...
Duck of Minerva

Unmanageable ally? Ceasefire breakdown reveals deeper tensions in US-Israel relationship - On June 19, 2026, as American and Iranian negotiators were set to meet in Switzerland to work through the terms of a fragile memorandum of understanding, I...
Ecosophia

A Vision: Examination of the Wheel, Concluded - The last six posts in this sequence have set out all but one of the twenty-eight phases of the Great Wheel, the grand mandala of Yeats’s system. The remain...
Discourse

Graham Platner Is Why You Should Never Stan a Politician - Plus: Mitch McConnell, Trump jinxing the U.S. soccer team, and a recap of Taylor and Travis' MSG wedding
Krebs on Security

Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup - A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspir...
NORML

A Significant Step Forward for Georgia’s Medical Cannabis Program - [image: A postage stamp featuring an image of trees and peaches in front of a plantation-style house reads "Greetings from Georgia," is set against a bac...
Sludge

Chemical Lobbyist-Packed EPA Boosts PFAS Pesticides - The EPA has approved new PFAS pesticides for nationwide use after its pesticide office adopted industry-friendly language excluding certain fluorinated che...
Rewire

States May Exclude Trans Kids from Sports: Supreme Court - Plus, how Illinois is protecting abortion patients and abortion pill restrictions go into effect in trio of states. The post States May Exclude Trans Ki...
The Rag Blog

MICHAEL MEEROPOL / REMEMBRANCE / David Rosner, a great public intellectual, a defender of public health - By Michael Meeropol / The Rag Blog / July 6, 2026 On May 25, 2026, the Public Health and History Community lost David Karl Rosner — a great scholar and cit...
Campaign for America's Future

Nosotros, El Pueblo, Venceremos - Siento gratitud hacia todas las personas que, a lo largo de los siglos, alzaron sus voces y se organizaron para hacer de este país un lugar mejor. Ahora es...
Field Negro

"What was old is new again". - As I sat watching these masked men march in Washington D.C. to celebrate the 250th anniversary of this experiment in democracy called America, I coul...
TalkLeft

Fourth of July Open Thread - Who ever thought that on the 4th of July, the main emotion evoked in millions of Americans would be shame. Shame that our fellow citizens voted to elect ...
Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report June 2026 - Walmart had at least twelve more shootings in June 2026, with five of them fatal, and the police chased and caught a thirteenth shooter two days after a...
Idavox

How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Nazi Show Promoter Mad After Having to Take Their Canceled Festival Down the Road - Vengeance is our sayeth the Antifa! “I started having problems once President Obama was elected,”... The post How Dare You Make Us Relocate Our Hate! Naz...
LareDOS

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension sets informational public meeting regarding New World Screwworm July 8 - Meeting begins at 10 a.m. at LC’s Yeary Library
Equality Texas

Pride Takes a Community - Across Texas, businesses of every size stepped up in extraordinary ways and became Partners in Pride. Some hosted fundraising events. Others donated a port...
Unlimited Hangout

The Secret History of Polymarket – Part 1 - Part I of a two-part series exposing the truth behind the world’s most popular prediction market and its dark ambitions to alter both markets and represe...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE Approves Bible in classroom, Flawed Social Studies Standards - Let’s be blunt. Texas public schools are now Ground Zero in the Christian nationalist war on religious freedom in America. From the Bible in the classroo...
Earthworks

“We Have to Do Whatever We Can” - Indigenous land and water defenders strategized to defend the Guatemalan people. Here's how. The post “We Have to Do Whatever We Can” appeared first on E...
Web of Debt

AI Abundance, Part 4: THE CLARITY ACT AND THE STABLECOIN WARS - As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress that...
Seeing the Forest

Imagine - This post was first published at Imagine Democracy – Imagining government of the people, by the people and for the people. Imagine a government run to do g...
The Grayzone

Leaked emails reveal British intel instigated riots in occupied Ireland with twisted ploys - Leaked emails expose how British military-intel officials deliberately provoked riots among occupied Ireland’s Catholic and Protestant communities, which...
The Socialist

Eric Adams Net Worth 2026: The Real Numbers Behind the Indictment - If you search for Eric Adams’ net worth online, you will instantly hit a wall of conflicting numbers. Some celebrity wealth trackers claim he is sitting on...
Media Lens

Whitewash: Media Silence Over Starmer’s Gaza Legacy - On Monday, Sir Keir Starmer was given a largely respectful farewell by the ‘mainstream’ media, portraying him as a ‘decent’ man who put his country first. ...
Land Destroyer

US Cements Political Capture of Armenia as it Advances “Extending Russia” Strategy - *June 15, 2026 *(NEO - Brian Berletic) - The United States continues pursuing its decades-spanning policy of maintaining global primacy by encircling and...
Environment Texas

What to do about data centers - Gov. Abbott’s call for data center reform is a good start—Texas lawmakers should go further to protect air, water and communities. The post What to do ab...
Avedon's Sideshow

Not another one, aw, no - "Girl With Mug" is a painting by Iranzy Art. Not sure where we are in any given minute with the Iran ceasefire deal, during which, as usual, Israel has ...
Edinburg Politics

Edinburg Cable Network earns 2026 Silver Telly Award for holiday video “The City of Edinburg Catches the Grinch,” reports Mayor Omar Ochoa - Christmas 2025 memories came flashing back in May 2026 when South Texans learned that the Edinburg Cable Network was named a 2026 Silver Telly Winner by th...
Consent Factory, Inc.

The Rise of the New Normal Reich (Redux) - So I’ve got some good news and some bad news. I’ll give you that news in just a minute, but, first, I need to do a recap for any readers just now tuning in...
Stinque

Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! - The post Pop! Six! Squish! Uh-uh! Cicero! Lipschitz! appeared first on Stinque.
Free & Equal

We Need More Choices in Elections | Christina Tobin Interviewed by Matt Kibbe - Tune in to hear Free and Equal founder Christina Tobin dive deep with Matt Kibbe on his show “Kibbe on Liberty!” They discuss the importance of breaking ...
Green Pages News

Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections - The Young Ecosocialists have concluded their May 2026 Special Elections. Those elected to the Steering Committee are: Alice Falle, Education & Member Suppo...
Countercurrents

Abdullah Quilliam: The Forgotten Pioneer of Child‑Centered Welfare and Social Protection - Abdullah Quilliam — born William Henry Quilliam in 1856 — was a British solicitor from Liverpo...
Skeptophilia

Thy fearful symmetry - For some of the most fundamental aspects of life, it's uncertain whether or not evolution was *constrained*. The question has great significance with regar...
DeSmogBlog

Gulf Royal Family Banks Over €70 Million in EU Farming Funds - The UAE’s ruling royal family is benefiting from tens of millions in EU subsidies to grow crops destined for the Gulf, it can be revealed. A new cross-bo...
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Downwinders at Risk

ForwardDallas - We are reclaiming our neighborhoods by embedding life-changing environmental justice policies into the city’s DNA, finally putting an end to industrial pol...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
ROAR Magazine

Weiss Casino Kifizetés: Gyors és Megbízható Pénzfelvételi Módszerek - Ez a cikk részletes áttekintést nyújt a Weiss Casino kifizetési lehetőségeiről, különös figyelmet fordítva a gyors és megbízható pénzfelvételi módszerekre....
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

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Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

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The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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